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Subject: [Leica] Crazy
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:13:42 -0800
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On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Just playing Devil's Advocate here: I guess there is certain purity in what
> the photographer sees as his immediate reactions, and using his equipments
> he has on hand right then and there.

purity maybe ...
but correct, maybe ocassionally...?
and no more correct than post editing...


every image ever made is a crop, therefore an selected/edited bit of 
history...
sometimes representative and "true",  sometimes wildly misleading,


Steve





> Any post editing afterward becomes
> editorially changed.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:48 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
> mac.com>wrote:
> 
>> what did he "lie" about?
>> he chose to visually talk about wrapping a fighter's hand
>> in a visually dramatic manner.
>> 
>> he chose not to talk about people standing in the background.
>> had he a 75mm lens on the camera at that moment
>> he'd very well may have made the photo without cropping a wider view.
>> 
>> what do you know from the full frame color
>> that you don't know from the cropped b&w?
>> 
>> is that additional knowledge important to you or the story?
>> 
>> Every documentary photographer and writer throughout history
>> has chosen what to include and exclude from their stories.
>> 
>> If you want the absolute, unvarnished truth,
>> you need at least three video cameras
>> running 24/7
>> everywhere
>> then view it all
>> unedited.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:26 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote:
>> 
>> It's photojournalism, Tina, not art photography.  He's created a lie.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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